How are you people on music charts these days? Honestly I would not have a clue today

AMKC · 10-02-2021 09:12PM #1

15 years ago I knew who was number 1 in the charts and cared about music. There was still some good music back then. I used to love buying the top singles and albums of singers I liked.

Now do I honestly do not have a clue. Do they even have charts these days and if so where do you buy a single or an album anymore. Not in Tesco anyway.
So anyone here still by music or know who is number 1 and for how long?

The Mighty Quinn · 10-02-2021 09:16PM

There was a time, from say 1997-2008 I'd know it all. Waiting for the top 30 countdown each week on the radio was a big thing.

Now? No idea. Not a clue.

I think Spotify and YouTube killed the thrill of hearing your favourite song on the radio, and waiting to see what was on the charts, couldn't look it up on the phone.

...that and I'm getting 'old', mid-30s now... but I think music is consumed differently now than it was, it's changed and can't go back.

Ubbquittious · 10-02-2021 09:17PM

Havn't a clue. I go through phases where I listen to the radio and check out new stuff on youtub but then I get sick of hearing the same sh1te and give it a rest for a while or revisit my archives.

buried · 10-02-2021 09:17PM

Don't know about the pop charts. Only chart I look at is the boomkat record store chart. Good resource for good independent music releases. You'd definitely find something among the top 50 bestsellers you would like.

https://boomkat.com/bestsellers

Its all fairly good. End of year charts are worth a look at too. Then again, you might not like none of it, but worth a look if you do like music.

AMKC · 10-02-2021 09:30PM

Glad to see I am not the only old one here out of touch with music these days.

10-02-2021 09:48PM

AMKC wrote: »

15 years ago I knew who was number 1 in the charts and cared about music. There was still some good music back then. I used to love buying the top singles and albums of singers I liked.

Now do I honestly do not have a clue. Do they even have charts these days and if so where do you buy a single or an album anymore. Not in Tesco anyway.
So anyone here still by music or know who is number 1 and for how long?

Used to listen to Top 30 on 2fm Sundays religiously up until around 2010.

Wouldn't have a clue these days. A lot of tripe out there. Nothing is catching my ear.

alchemist33 · 10-02-2021 09:50PM

Not a clue. Dunno if its my age or that charts are pretty meaningless these days, with most being accounted for by streams and downloads.

buried · 10-02-2021 09:59PM

We can't rely on the radio anymore to provide us with what we want to enjoy. That day is done and gone. But that doesn't mean that the music we enjoy isn't being created, it definitely is, but all of us now have to work and search a bit ourselves to get it. Which makes it more rewarding IMO. Ye need to delve further into what your own musical tastes are, ask yereselves what ye enjoy and then search for that work yereselves. Search for it on the internet. Loads of places to do it. Bandcamp being one.

Mad_maxx · 10-02-2021 11:50PM

havent followed who was in the top ten since circa 2001

Papa_Bear · 11-02-2021 01:07AM

I don't know why ye even bother, everything's ****e since Roy Orbison died.

Church on Tuesday · 11-02-2021 01:24AM

SLAAYER!!!!!

French Toast · 11-02-2021 01:27AM

Not a clue at the minute.

Spin SW is always on at work during the summers, so I usually get to know the lyrics to the top 3 songs off by heart.

Junkyard Tom · 11-02-2021 01:28AM

The good old days when people like Gary Glitter and Jimmy Saville were on TOTP and all those young girls dancing in the audience.

Stormington · 11-02-2021 01:30AM

You leave things behind as you get older.

This is a banger though.

Your Face · 11-02-2021 02:35AM

So what do you make of this music television?

Arduach · 11-02-2021 03:17AM

Not a clue.

Is Barbie Girl-Aqua still number 1?

Rubberchikken · 11-02-2021 03:47AM

I loved listening to radio luxembourg. Then in the early 80s wat hing Mtusa on a Sunday was a must.

Now I love Spotify. Can listen to what I actually want.

Happened to hear redfm late the other night at work and God maybe I'm showing my age but every bloody song sounded alike. They all seem to repeat the same few lines with the same whiney music. Couldn't tell one from the other.

Gruffalux · 11-02-2021 05:26AM

In fairness John Kelly and John Creedon between them play a lot of the music one needs to keep up with. Wet Ass Pussy does not feature.

tdf7187 · 11-02-2021 05:30AM

Arduach wrote: »

Not a clue.

Is Barbie Girl-Aqua still number 1?

Nah Whigfield's "Saturday Night" has now beaten it to the top spot.

tdf7187 · 11-02-2021 05:32AM

Rubberchikken wrote: »

I loved listening to radio luxembourg. Then in the early 80s wat hing Mtusa on a Sunday was a must.

Now I love Spotify. Can listen to what I actually want.

Happened to hear redfm late the other night at work and God maybe I'm showing my age but every bloody song sounded alike. They all seem to repeat the same few lines with the same whiney music. Couldn't tell one from the other.

The only time I listen to recent music (meaning last 15 years or so) is while in newsagents, petrol stations etc and ffs...what is it with this trend of modern male singers singing in that awful whining tone?

Richard Hillman · 11-02-2021 05:42AM

Some Geezer called The Weekend played the Superbowl the other night. I swear, I didn't have a clue who he was.

The Mighty Quinn · 11-02-2021 10:47AM

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Some Geezer called The Weekend played the Superbowl the other night. I swear, I didn't have a clue who he was.

"The Weeknd", one of the few I do know from the last 5 years. Seems a talented guy to be fair, some of his vocals echo Michael Jackson type in my opinion. "I can't feel my face when I'm with you" is a tune!

RikkFlair · 11-02-2021 11:02AM

Cardi B is a person...and here I was thinking it was the name of the ward in my local hospital for people with heart issues.

JustAThought · 11-02-2021 11:09AM

RikkFlair wrote: »

Cardi B is a person...and here I was thinking it was the name of the ward in my local hospital for people with heart issues.

A lot if it seems to be blacksploitation talkey style rap - can’t relate to it and wouldn’t be bothered listening to it twice. Billy Ellish has some dark tunes ( not that you could sing most of them) - bit dark when you realise she is a 16 year old schoolgirl - especially when you see the videos :0

whats number one today?
I used tune into the online MTV charts under the desk but the ads at the start and end of every tune ruined it for me.

Relikk · 11-02-2021 11:23AM

I usually watch The Hit List on BBC when it's on and can get most of the songs from the 60's up to the mid 2000's, but 2010 seems to be my limit. Anything after that just doesn't register. Partially because I don't follow popular music as much as I used to, but it's also partially because the music is largely forgettable, homogenised, derivative, unimaginative shite by samey sounding and talentless "musicians", and no, that's not because I'm getting older, it's because it's shite. There was always a time during pop musics history where you would find a lot of it catchy even if it wasn't to your tastes, but since at least 2010 onwards there is nothing memorable.

Gruffalux · 11-02-2021 11:32AM

In fairness though even with all the shyte there do come recentish pop tunes that absolutely compel one to shoulder dance while driving. As Justin so correctly says, can't stop this feeling, so just dance dance dance.

ancapailldorcha · 11-02-2021 11:42AM

At some point in the near past, grime went from being an undesirable descriptive to a genre at music. I think that my failing to notice this is confirmation that I am no longer with "it".

The Mighty Quinn · 11-02-2021 01:26PM

Relikk wrote: »

but since at least 2010 onwards there is nothing memorable.

I'm going to have to pull you on this one. While I agree that much more of it is forgettable and derivative auto-tuned samey-samey stuff, there has been some great songs over the last decade (getting regular radio play), just they're fewer and farther between than before I think.

Since you said from 2010 onwards, I'll list a few memorable tracks in my opinion, I don't like them all, but they are recognisable songs;

2010:
2011: Adele - Rolling In The Deep/Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks
2012: Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know/Fun - We Are Young
2013: Macklemore - Can't Hold Us/The Lumineers - Ho Hey
2014: Pharrell Williams - Happy/Bastille - Pompeii
2015: Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk/Walk The Moon - Shut Up and Dance
2016: Twenty One Pilots - Stressed Out/Mike Posner - Took A Pill In Ibiza
2017: The Weeknd - Star Boy/Niall Horan - Slow Hands

...then I start to run out, but I'm sure there are a few

doublejobbing 2 · 11-02-2021 01:49PM

One of the few benefits of Covid unemployment is I never find myself in earshot of lads on site who insist on having FM104 / 98FM/ SPIN 103.8 on all day every day with the same seven or eight songs on every hour, just in different order. I can't understand it, lads in their 40's who will listen to any old shiet just for background noise.

Up next, Ariana Grande. After that, Picture This, Ed Sheeran, Followed by Lizzo, then Justin Bieber. Then The Weekend.

Just switch the order around every hour.

It's only interrupted only by celebrity news updates about some coont off Love Island who nobody with an IQ over 4 could care less about.

Classic Hits by right should be a great station but they seem to loop the same 100 or so songs for a few months at a time.

There used to be plenty of pirate dance stations about Dublin, they seem to have taken a hit with Covid with less advertisers willing to back them.

The Mighty Quinn · 11-02-2021 01:52PM

I've always fancied the idea of being a DJ for a classic hits radio station. It'd be a dream job, i'd love it. Anything from Chuck Berry to Bill Withers to Dire Straits to Del Shannon to Stereophonics. It'd be great!!

doublejobbing 2 · 11-02-2021 01:53PM

Relikk wrote: »

There was always a time during pop musics history where you would find a lot of it catchy even if it wasn't to your tastes, but since at least 2010 onwards there is nothing memorable.

Reeling in the Years the 2000's edition, the music is seriously poor compared to the prior decades. Like you say, is there really much 2010s pop music that will be remembered in 35 years the way, say, Wham would be today? I seriously can't see it. There's just no charm or fun in any of it.

And Oasis were the last great working class band. What have we got now? ****ing Picture This?:pac::pac:

How are you people on music charts these days? Honestly I would not have a clue today

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